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Yoon, Choongil – Language Learning & Technology, 2016
The present study investigated how 6 Korean ESL graduate students in Canada used a suite of freely available reference resources, consisting of Web-based corpus tools, Google search engines, and dictionaries, for solving linguistic problems while completing an authentic academic writing assignment in English. Using a mixed methods design, the…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Writing (Composition), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Ishikura, Yukiko – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2015
In 2009, the Japanese government launched the Global 30 (G30) Project, a new initiative to internationalize universities. Selected universities had to create English-medium degree programs at undergraduate level in order to stimulate "internationalization at home." The G30 Project represented a major shift in the focus of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Student Attrition
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Sánchez-Gómez, Ma. Cruz; Pinto-Llorente, Ana Ma.; García-Peñalvo, Francisco José – Digital Education Review, 2017
In the field of teaching a second language (L2), technology has always occupied a relevant position. The development of new technological tools has allowed the convergence of two learning environments, traditional face-to-face learning and virtual learning. This convergence has fostered the advantages of both types of instructions and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Altay, Betül; Saracaloglu, Asuman Seda – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2017
This study aimed to examine the relationship among language learning strategies, critical thinking skills and self-regulation skills of preparation class students. In this process, students were interviewed and courses were observed so as to profile students' management of learning situations and their awareness for these strategies through a…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Learning Strategies
Altay, Betül; Saracaloglu, Asuman Seda – Online Submission, 2017
This study aimed to examine the relationship among language learning strategies, critical thinking skills and self-regulation skills of preparation class students. In this process, students were interviewed and courses were observed so as to profile students' management of learning situations and their awareness for these strategies through a…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Learning Strategies
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Roy, Debopriyo; Brine, John; Murasawa, Fuyuki – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2016
The act of note-taking offloads cognitive pressure and note-taking applications could be used as an important tool for foreign language acquisition. Its use, importance, and efficacy in a foreign language learning context could be justifiably debated. However, existing computer-assisted language learning literature is almost silent on the topic.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Usability, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Zarrabi, Shayesteh – ProQuest LLC, 2016
International students, a growing population in US universities, need to possess excellent reading skills in order to succeed. American universities also benefit from admitting students who do not require remedial English classes. Reading online has become an integrated part of college education, which requires students to have additional skills.…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Strategies, Statistical Analysis, Online Surveys
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Thang, Siew Ming; Lin, Luck Kee; Mahmud, Najihah; Ismail, Kemboja; Zabidi, Noraza Ahmad – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2014
Digital storytelling, which combines the art of storytelling with a variety of digital audio, video, and multimedia images, has been increasingly used as a language learning tool as research studies have shown it to be effective in enhancing the development of language skills as well as related language learning skills, such as autonomy,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Integration, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Sepeng, Percy – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2014
The study reported in this article sought to explore and observe how grade 9 learners solve real-wor(l)d problems (a) without real context and (b) without real meaning. Learners' abilities to make sense of the decontextualised word problems set in the real world were investigated with regard to learners' use of common sense in relation to problem…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Knowledge Level, Language Usage, Word Problems (Mathematics)
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Nguyen, Kate; Stanley, Nile; Stanley, Laurel; Wang, Yonghui – Cogent Education, 2015
International students, who study a foreign language abroad, experience more adversities than their domestic peers. The social challenges they face include problems with immigration status, isolation, difficulty speaking a new language, and learning unfamiliar customs. There is limited research focused on the coping strategies of these…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Second Language Learning, Correlation, Social Status
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Cao, Linying – English Language Teaching, 2012
In this study the author draws on Jane Willis' TBL framework and examines its effects on the improvement of EFL learners' writing competence when such a framework is applied to college writing classrooms in Chinese EFL settings, and thus tentatively explores the feasibility of the task-based approach to the teaching of EFL writing. Results of this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Feasibility Studies
Chatpunnarangsee, Kwanjira – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study is to explore ways of incorporating web-based concordancers for the purpose of teaching English collocations. A mixed-methods design utilizing a case study strategy was employed to uncover four specific dimensions of corpus use by twenty-four students in two classroom sections of a writing course at a university in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computational Linguistics, Phrase Structure, Worksheets
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Rohani, Siti – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2013
This study aimed at describing how the implementation of Task-Based Learning (TBL) would shape or change students' use of oral communication strategies. Students' problems and strategies to solve the problems during the implementation of TBL were also explored. The study was a mixed method, employing both quantitative and qualitative analysis…
Descriptors: Communication Strategies, Verbal Communication, Oral Language, Evaluation Methods
Lansiquot, Reneta D. – IGI Global, 2013
Involving two or more academic subjects, interdisciplinary studies aim to blend together broad perspectives, knowledge, skills, and epistemology in an educational setting. By focusing on topics or questions too broad for a single discipline to cover, these studies strive to draw connections between seemingly different fields. Cases on…
Descriptors: Enrichment, Organizational Change, Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers